Susanne Bier

Quick Facts

Full Name	Susanne Bier
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Apr 15, 1960(1960-04-15)
Age	64
Birthplace	Copenhagen
Country	Denmark
Birth City	Capital Region of Denmark
Horoscope	Aries

Susanne Bier Biography

Susanne Bier is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on April 15, 1960 in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark. The first female director to be awarded an European Film Award who later was recognized by Netflix fans for her work as director on Bird Box. She also directed Danish movies Brothers (2004), After the Wedding (2006) and In a Better World (2010).

She directed the cult Netflix movie Bird Box, starring She directed the hit Netflix original film Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock..

Susanne Bier was born to a Jewish family in Copenhagen, Denmark on 15 April

1960. The family of her father, Rudolf Salomon Baer (born 1930), emigrated from Germany to Denmark in 1933 after Hitler’s rise to power. The family of her mother, Heni (née Jonas; born 1936), emigrated to Denmark from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, to escape rising anti-semitism. In 1943, the two families fled from Denmark to Sweden, together with most Danish Jews, to escape the deportation to the Nazi death camps. Three years after the end of World War II, they returned to Denmark. The effects of the Holocaust caused Bier’s parents to instill the strong moral values and principles into their children. Later, the importance of human resilience and dignity would be a recurring theme in her films.

Susanne Bier (Danish: [suˈsænə ˈpiɐ̯ˀ] ; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer. She is best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding, In a Better World, and Bird Box, and the TV miniseries The Night Manager. Bier is the first female director to win a Golden Globe, an Emmy Award, and a European Film Award, collectively.

She divorced and married Swedish actress and filmmaker Philip Zanden with whom she has two children named Gabriel as well as Alice. She later married the composer and singer Jesper Winge Leisner.

Susanne Bier Net Worth

Susanne Bier is one of the richest Director from Denmark. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Susanne Bier 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was looking get back in touch the connection to her Jewish roots after she graduated from high school. She continued to study arts in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. She later studied Architecture through the Architectural Association in London before returning to film and graduated from her school, the National Film School of Denmark in 1987.

She was part of the jury for the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival.

In Susan King’s article, Bier claims her Jewish heritage embedded a strong sense of family in conjunction to a sense of instability and turmoil. This pertains to her father’s need to flee Germany in 1933 to Denmark, where he met Bier’s mother. The two of them fled by boat to Sweden after Nazis began rounding up Jews in Denmark. Originally, Bier imagined herself married to a nice Jewish man with six children. She later decided that she wanted to pursue a career. She has been married twice and has two children, Gabriel and Alice. Despite this, she still holds family as her biggest influence and claims she would have never become a filmmaker without her children. To Bier, “family is a sense of identity”. “I speak to my parents every day. I have a very close relationship to my aunts and uncles, but also my ex-husband…who comes to stay with us. I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me, I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them. That way of living definitely informs the stories I tell.”Although she frequently depicts international stories in third world countries, Bier had never been to Africa or India until she started making movies there. On her frequent interest and depiction of the Third World, Bier insists that “it is sort of pointing out that the Third World is really a part of our lives. It is unavoidable, and we need to relate to it…” As she writes in a public letter after winning the Oscar for In a Better World, “My particular world is not just Copenhagen. It had to be broader than this. My world is larger than it used to be.” In Sylvaine Gold’s article, Bier claims she doesn’t like to be in a state of comfort when working. Typically in her films, happy and comfortable characters are met by situations of extreme sadness and catastrophe. She attributes this obsession to her parents experience during World War II when “society suddenly turned against them” because they were Jewish. Despite this obsession with tragedy, Bier says “I’ve had a very fortunate, very privileged life [but] I say that with all humility, because it could change tomorrow. But I have a very strong ability to empathize, to understand what things feel like.” Her frequent writing collaborator Anders Thomas Jensen confirms this “humanness” in her, that “She’s very good at putting herself in a character’s place, which is really a gift.” Bier also insists that despite her negative depictions in her films, she always wants to end a film with some vestige of hope. She never wants to alienate her audience, that it is always key to “have an ability to communicate”.

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Who is Susanne Bier Dating?

According to our records, Susanne Bier married to Philip Zandén , Jesper Winge Leisner. As of December 1, 2023, Susanne Bier’s is not dating anyone.

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A sidestep from the easy going charm of Livet är en schlager (Once in a Lifetime, 2000), Elsker dig for evigt (Open Hearts, 2002) brought Bier’s work to much wider international attention and acclaim. Acutely observed and beautifully written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen, the film is a perceptive and painful exploration of broken lives and interconnected tragedies. Made under Dogme 95 regulations, the film also marked a move towards a more minimalist aesthetic.

Facts & Trivia

Susanne Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Denmark. Susanne Bier celebrates birthday on April 15 of every year.

Following the influence of Dogme 95 manifesto, Bier directed the film Open Hearts in 2002. Open Hearts tells the story of two couples whose lives are traumatized by a car crash and adultery.